Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
"Your job is to protect Shakespeare from us," producer Irving Thalberg told a scholar hired to consult on Romeo and Juliet. Thalberg's respect for the Bard infuses this "best of the pre-Oliver Shakespeare films" (David Shipman, The Story of Cinema) chosen as one of 1930's 10-best...